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Logan Sekulow: Disaster on the debate stage as Letitia James implodes.
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Logan Sekulow: Welcome to Seculo. Phone lines are open for you at 1-800-684-3110, 1-800-684-3110. Another day, another update from Letitia James. And this happened on the debate stage again. You may not have heard this in national coverage cuz again that's not necessarily something that's hitting all mainstream news, but well, there are some moments that you need to see. Phone lines are open for you at 1-800-684-3110. We also have a major update in the home schooler who, you know, he's a graduate, wanted to become a paid firefighter after a couple of years of volunteer firefighting, becoming an EMT. You know that whole situation. They decided that being a home school graduate did not qualify him as having a legitimate high school diploma. Now they reversed course. We got some some movement in that, some great traction. However, there is another swerve we did not expect coming, but of course we have the greatest legal team on board. So the ACLJ is jumping right back in to support this student, all home schoolers nationwide. We're going to get to that coming up in just a few moments. But Will, let's break down what was going on in New York as the attorney generals were having a debate.
Will Addison: That 's right. So this is between Letitia James and her opponent who's a Republican in New York. And what we saw last night was someone who's relatively unknown and once again probably is not going to win the election here. This is for the New York State Attorney General. It's pretty solidly for Letitia James was bringing up points that we have seen from our FOIA discovery. And what did we see? We saw the individual point out things like what that whistleblower was saying. It comes at the time that we got all of this the same week as this debate. All of this is now public and in the public discourse the same week as there was a debate for this political position. So as we look at this and play this, I think this was probably the most pivotal moment and it was kind of ironic coming from Letitia James knowing everything that she's being accused of by this whistleblower. This is by four with her talking about how she needs to handle her office and what she does as attorney general.
Letitia James: Those comments demonstrate empathy. And what we need now more than ever in our body politics is more empathy. Politics stops at the door in my office.
Logan Sekulow: So right there, one, she's running for a political position. This is a link in a dot at some point you're going, okay, of all the things you've been accused for to say politics stops at the door. If politics stops at the door of your house, I understand. I feel like that's more what we all try to say. Like, hey, when we go home, we put politics aside and hopefully we're living our lives being with our families. We are saying politics stops at the door of your politically elected position. And of course you have been targeted specifically for what? Targeting someone for political motives exclusively.
Will Addison: Right. And once again, I think also the fact that she brings up and says what we need more in politics is empathy. There's a lot of ways you could take this. I don't think that she's had any empathy for the targets of her political prosecutions that we've seen over the last several years as well as the fact of I'm not so sure that that is the job of an attorney general to be empathy. No, you are the top law enforcement officer. There are plenty of people that can have empathy in politics. But as the top law enforcement officer of the state, I kind of want to see you be a little harsh on crime.
Logan Sekulow: Yeah. That's right, Will. Phone lines are open if you want to be harsh on crime. 1-800-684-3110. Hey, I did want to say work of the ACLJ continues. You're going to hear about this really coming up in about two segments. We're going to talk about more about that home school situation. The ACLJ is involved. Individual cases, sure. These individual cases they have consequences that affect everyone. So as we start to wrap up this week, I want you to support the work of the ACLJ by going to aclj.org today. And when you do that, you can look at all the incredible free content. Nothing we do is behind a paywall. That is only because people donate and support. So sure our content will remain free. But it's only free because you decided, hey, I want to make sure this content is widely available to anyone who may access it. And that is because you donate. Right now is a great time to do it. You can become an ACLJ champion if you'd like as well. That's someone that gives monthly. Let's go to aclj.org right now. You can scan that QR code you see on the screen and you can become an ACLJ champion. When I get back though, look, it's just me and Will for this hour so we wrap up the week and I want to hear from you. Phone lines are open at 1-800-684-3110. Give me a call right now. Lines are open.
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Logan Sekulow: Welcome back to Seculo. Look, a lot of you watching it right now and I'd love to hear from you at 1-800-684-3110. Just go through my notes here cuz this was a fiery debate with Letitia James versus again this is a a a partisan if you will be debate. These are Republicans and Democrats running. So you may go, hey, who how does the Republican fair in a debate? Clearly they had to have the debate. So that is interesting that this debate even happened. Will can a Republican actually pull off being the job of attorney general? Looks probably unlikely in today's New York City or today's New York. I'm sorry that that could happen. But you know what? Put her best foot forward and gave at least a reason to question why you would elect someone with so much political baggage. And I think that's mainly what we're talking about here. Not just the legal side of it, but even just the political baggage that comes with Letitia James. The fact that your attorney general is a household name across the country is not necessarily always a good thing if you're the attorney general of a state.
Will Addison: Right. And once again, we have attorneys general on this broadcast from time to time that that because you watch the Seculo broadcast, you may know more about them like JB Pritzker. But the odds of of you knowing just off the top of your head the attorney general of a state other than your own are very low unless you are very political nerd and get down into the nuance of every state race, which many people here at the ACLJ do. We we follow these things. It's important.
Logan Sekulow: He's calling you all nerds.
Will Addison: No, no, no, no. Just the people that work here, not not the viewers. Right. So but once again, you're talking about Letitia James. She made a household name for herself because she ran on getting President Trump four years ago. That was her entire MO.
Logan Sekulow: And And had some success in it. I mean not not success, but had success in making it not pleasant.
Will Addison: Well, the civil fraud case she got a conviction. Now it got overturned because what did she seek? Half a billion dollars. And this is the same person we played in the last segment that said politics stops at the door of my office, which is just hysterical and laughable. But I want to play this by two because as we saw from the whistleblower's letter that we obtained as well as the back and forth with him in the office of Letitia James, he was an assistant attorney general in the state New York their attorney general's office. And he was saying the only thing she cares about is politics. She doesn't care about Medicare fraud, shouldn't care about homeless shelter fraud, she doesn't care about the rise in anti-semitism and the violent crime that's happening in our state. The only things that Letitia James cares about are politically expedient prosecutions that are easy for her to boost her name and to get reelected. Those are his words.
Logan Sekulow: And I think this question that you're going to play here, it's an interesting one because it's not necessarily a gotcha question. It's one though to just see like kind of what you know. Right. You know about your state. Do you really know where you're coming from?
Will Addison: Right. Well, and once again, you think that if you hold this position currently, there is some some pride and prestige that goes along with it. You want to know a little bit what's come before you so you can know one mistakes to avoid, things of that nature. But this is where the moderator asks Letitia James to name just a past attorney general she admires. So if you know one that was like in your same party, you could just throw that name out there. All it takes. Here's how this goes down by 12. Ms. James, name a past New York attorney general that you admire.
Logan Sekulow: Um uh TikTok.
Letitia James: She only admires herself.
Jay Sekulow: No, no, no, no. We admire others. Um I admire all of the past attorney generals cuz it's a difficult job and you've got to stand up.
Letitia James: Dennis Facko, at a time when New York State needed it, we had another former federal prosecutor become attorney general and bring law and order to the state.
Will Addison: Once again, now the opponent is clearly it's an uphill battle for the the opponent who's Ms. Comito Ready, who is there trying to unseat the incumbent in a state that's going to vote very blue. That's a that's a uphill battle. That's a no one is is thinking that, oh, she won it the debate. Now she's going to win the office. But even there she was ready. Why? Because she knows the history of the law enforcement. She's a former prosecutor herself. She used someone that was a very skillful debate tactic to compare herself to in that.
Logan Sekulow: She was the last Republican to hold that position in again has been nearly 30 years.
Will Addison: Right. Exactly. So yeah, skillful debate move was obviously prepared for this debate. Letitia James it was painful. And if you're watching on YouTube or Rumble or Salem News Channel, you got to see how painful you if you're listening on radio, you heard the silence, which was bad enough. But you saw her like squirming in the moderator even goes TikTok. That shows how poorly prepared for this she was. And that's what is the concern I think with even this whistleblower. If she can't even show up to debate, is she showing up for the people of New York with a easy question? And what's her answer at the end, which also could be politically dire of saying
Logan Sekulow: Everybody.
Will Addison: everybody. No one ever did a bad job. It's such a tough office to be in. I mean that can get you in trouble because historically you got some bad apples in in any political position.
Logan Sekulow: I feel like in the state of New York there's probably been a few controversial figures.
Will Addison: Right. The attorney general that may be on the payroll of some organizations. I don't know.
Logan Sekulow: Yeah. Yeah, you know, you never know. It's also 101 in terms of debating is knowing how to answer a question even when you don't know the answer to the question. You can always swerve it, come up with something. That is pretty interesting that you couldn't even come up with that. You don't want those big gaps, those big silences. Sure it's human nature to have that, but if you're trained at all, you ever trained at doing interviews, you're trained at doing anything like this in media, you know how to at least pivot to move things in a direction. So if you don't know and you can't, maybe you're having just sort of a a moment of brain lapse moment where you can't come up within the second who another attorney general is that you liked. Again, it's an insane thing that someone running for attorney general wouldn't know that. But maybe you can't. There's easy ways to swerve it.
Will Addison: Well, could she also not have thought who she replaced? Like with just one step before she couldn't even get there. But once again, this is what we 're looking at. And this is also why the work that we've been doing here at the ACLJ is so important. This is the political side. This is just someone running for office. But we are still going to hold these offices accountable. That is why we did file that FOIA request and we were able to get from the state attorney general's office from her office all of these records. And what are they saying? Hey, December 4th you're going to get more. So when you know where to go and you know what to ask for, you can then show the public. You can hold sunshine to what is happening in these government offices. And it may be the New York State Attorney General's office that may not affect you. You can't most of you can't go vote in this election. And that's fine. So you maybe why you even talking about it? Because state attorneys general are important. They do have a lot of authority and a lot of power to even fight back against the federal government. And that's what we've seen positive things from from people like JB Puskas in West Virginia that that we work with and are able to move things forward or put a block on things that that are are detrimental to our constitutional framework that comes out of either the federal government or other states. But then when you have someone in this powerful law enforcement position in a state like New York that is a very powerful state, has a lot of resources and they decide to use that office instead to do something beneficial for the country and for their own citizens like, you know, enforce the law, what are they doing? They're they're doing political prosecutions. They are trying to find any way possible. Now she she isn't running this time on I'm going to get Trump because that's what she won on the first time. But you can tell by what this whistleblower said that that work isn't over. She is still according to the whistleblower alleging that the only cases that he sees that they're really pursuing are the political ones, the one that are going to score points going after things like Truth Social, going after companies that got federal US Department of Justice approved mergers. Go see if you can find anything there, dig into that. It's the same thing she did to President Trump the first time when said we think you you over inflated your value and therefore you got a loan. Meanwhile, the bank said, no, he repaid his loan. There was no issue there. There was no victim here. She still went for a $500 million judgment.
Logan Sekulow: There was no victim of that crime. Remember and that all that did was really just stop up the president from having to be able to get other things done and all the issues that would come up was all politically motivated. The idea was to stop him from winning reelection. I think in many ways she I think your Democrat voters who don't like President Trump in New York should look for the fact that she may be one of the reasons he won the general election because all of the stuff that she put him through was so politically targeted and politically motivated that most people saw right through it and they realized that could be them that you could have someone who just politically motivated decided to target you. And if that happens, you kind of riled up a base. You remember that arrest moment, the the mug shot moment kind of became a legend. It kind of became a rallying cry to change what was going on. So somewhat this person, Letitia James is running for attorney general once again in New York New York is partially to blame for President Trump if you're on that other side. So maybe this Republican candidate can show a little bit of that. Now I don't think again it's going to win you over too many voters, but it's a thought.
Will Addison: That's right. And once again, this was a debate for office. There's also other debates that happened around the country last night that you may not have seen. I mean there's ones in in Iowa for governor. There was a very important one in Michigan for the Senate seat. And where the favorite candidate, the Democrat socialist, El Sayed had some interesting
Logan Sekulow: We know. We know.
Will Addison: question dodging that took place there. And we'll get to that later in this broadcast.
Logan Sekulow: We're going to get to it. We are going to get to it and we also again are going to give you an update on that home schooler graduate wants to be a firefighter, very well qualified. You know what happened. But now we got a big update. So we're going to get to that in the next segment. Some phone lines are open for you. Actually I'll be honest with you. We got a ton of people watching right now and all our phone lines are open. So give me a call. Be on the air today. Do us a favor. Just me and Will today. We could use your help. You can support the work financially, the work of the ACLJ at aclj.org. Make your donation today. We'll be back in just a minute. Welcome to the all new ACLJ app. Expert analysis and insight Big Tech can't censor. Customize your news and get real-time alerts on the issues you care about. Advocacy is now at your fingertips. Take action, make a difference, support the causes you care about with just one tap. Be the first to know. Breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox. Everything you need all in one place. Stay informed, stay empowered. Download today. We are so excited to announce the ACLJ's brand new app, completely redesigned to provide you with the best tools available to partner with us at the ACLJ. You can watch the daily Seculo program, sign the petitions, customize your ACLJ membership experience, donate with the clickable button, and receive up to the minute critical updates that the mainstream media can't censor. Just scan the QR code on your screen or go to your phone's app store, search ACLJ, and click install. It's that simple. The challenges facing Americans are substantial at a time when our values, our freedoms, and our constitutional rights are under attack, it's more important than ever to stand with the American Center for Law and Justice. For decades now, the ACLJ has been on the front lines protecting your freedoms, defending your rights in courts, in Congress, and in the public arena. And we have an exceptional track record of success. But here's the bottom line. We could not do our work without your support. We remain committed to protecting your religious and constitutional freedoms. That remains our top priority, especially now during these challenging times. The American Center for Law and Justice is on your side. If you're already a member, thank you. And if you're not, well, this is the perfect time to stand with us at aclj.org where you can learn more about our life-changing work. Become a member today. aclj.org Welcome back to Seculo. Phone lines are open. I want to hear from you. 1-800-684-3110. We want to pivot just a little bit. We are going to keep talking about the Letitia James and the attorney general debate was was man it was wild. There are some great comments. We're going to play some more of those clips as we go forward. But the ACLJ team as I said is really motivated to help people individuals throughout this country cuz when we help these individuals, especially at no cost, it ends up helping everyone. And if you're a home schooler or maybe a grandparent of a home schooler, a parent of a home schooler, I am. I'm parent of a home schooler and also a former home schooler myself. You may get to a situation where a state, a city decides they don't like home schoolers because they know there's some connotations to it. It's usually doesn't have to do with their academic excellence. No, of course not. Usually it has to do with the fact that often they're religious, often they have a different set of moral standards. And in this situation, you had a person who was not only well qualified for a position to be a paid firefighter, want to be a career firefighter. Something that we should be praising, someone who again already for multiple years had been a qualified EMT, certified EMT, had been doing that for a job, uh one rookie of the year as firefighter. And then when he went to go apply for that position and said high school diploma, he said, sure, I I I went to high school. They said, no, no, no, we meant a uh accredited high school, which we consider right now in this moment home schooling not to be accredited form of education here in our state. Now we went really hard on this. I'm to say this was because someone like you tagged me in a post and said, Logan, the ACLJ needs to get involved in this. And we did. So first I want to say thank you. I've gotten some even new ones and I've passed stuff along to our legal counsel throughout the last few weeks as you all have been tagging me and I appreciate that. Keep it coming. Doesn't bother me at all. Cuz the stories like this we can sometimes get handled very quickly. However, the fallout is sometimes larger. So you had a situation where the city then the the actual people, not the not the government said enough of this. You have put us now as a national disgrace. You have brought national news. You have brought the ACLJ to our front door. Enough with this. So they went, they changed the rule and they said, you know what? We're going to get rid of that qualification which they had already added in after the fact. So remember they changed it to accredited after they denied him quickly. They're like, oh, no one will ever notice. They changed it back, made some new adjustments. Home schoolers are now allowed to be paid firefighters in the area. We thought, okay, part one win. He still didn't have a job, still wasn't able to qualify here. And hey, we need to make sure we're protecting home schoolers nationwide. So we decide we're going to take this even further. However, in the meantime, they decided, you know what? We're going to reopen that job position. We're going to reopen the job applications for that position. Now with our new standard and we thought, great. The new standard of course is that home schoolers qualify. However, there's another swerve as there always is.
Will Addison: That's right. And unfortunately for them, but fortunately for our client, we've had to send another letter going out today to the city of Fremont because
Logan Sekulow: Fremont, Nebraska. I need to make sure we clarify cuz some people say, oh, Fremont, California, of course, California. It's not this is
Will Addison: No, Fremont, Mont, Nebraska.
Logan Sekulow: Nebraska.
Will Addison: And here's what happened. They got caught, tried to make it look like they fixed the problem. And then they moved the goal post. So now this position that is opened up that Andrew can apply for is not just the entry level position because he had not been a paid firefighter previously, just a volunteer firefighter. So he would still be in this pool of entry level uh firefighter position. But they expanded the pool of applicants. So now up to two years of experience firefighters are eligible for this position. And those individuals they would make this lateral move uh can be exempted from some of the testing like the the written exam, etc. if they want to apply for this position. So it's not as though they got caught, they fixed it at the city level. They still try to say, we don't really think there was a problem here, but fine, we'll change the the written ordinance, etc. And then they repost the job. And now this job they make it harder for someone like Andrew to compete for because they expand the pool of applicants. To me, and I'm not the attorney here, but our attorneys that are sending this letter, they're the ones that are getting to the bottom of this and they're going to continue. But this seems like a pattern is developing where we didn't want the home schooler the first time. So we just changed the rule and said home schoolers can't do it. Now that we got caught and we had to change our rules and go through all of this embarrassment, now we're going to make it harder for the home schooler to get the job cuz we're going to open it up to a more people, a broader pool of people that maybe want to come work for this fine city of Fremont, Nebraska. And say, look, it's not just an entry level position now. Now if you have experience of being a paid firefighter, you can come and make this lateral move to this job. This isn't okay. That 's why we're sending this letter today. And they have a deadline here that I'm going to turn to to say that they have to uh respond and show how they're going to remedy this because this isn't okay. They have no later than October 16th, 2026 to tell us whether or not they're going to agree to the relief that we requested, which is to fully restore his opportunity to compete for this position. Now we know that they may or may not be having some internal discussion. We're going to see if they can get to the right place just through this action. If not, they're they're just begging for a federal lawsuit from the ACLJ to represent our client Andrew Coats.
Logan Sekulow: That's right. Today we are again it's going to be sending that demand letter on behalf of Andrew Coats. Again was denied a chance to apply for the position first cuz he was home schooled. Again not a home schooler. We're not talking about someone under 18. This someone who's a graduate multiple years. He's 20s.
Will Addison: Doesn't this also like sound so like elementary school childish of like you had friends that went to the public school and you're home schooled and they're like, oh, oh, well, you don't go to real school. You don't go to real school, Andrew. My goodness. It's it's just ridiculous that adults are acting this way.
Logan Sekulow: That's right. But the ACLJ team has taken action and we are going to be supporting Andrew all the way. And that is only because again people like you support. As we wrap up this first half hour, no, we have a second half hour coming up. If you don't get it on your local station, if you're just listening to us maybe on terrestrial radio, like I know a lot of you still do, we have a full television style broadcast live every day 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. Eastern time that we run this show. Maybe you're listening to it later on. You can always catch it archived, however you get your podcast, of course on YouTube, Facebook, Rumble. You can always see us. You can interact with us in a chat. It's a great way to do it. But you can support the work of the ACLJ as I encourage you to do by going to aclj.org. Again, if you want to become a champion, that's someone who gives monthly. It it's vital to our success to build that baseline. I would love for you to do it today as we wrap up this week. Whether the ACLJ team is fighting for a home school graduate in Nebraska or fighting for the lives of those in Pakistan, the ACLJ team is worldwide and it's only because people like you support 100% of the finances that come in here to pay for our legal team, pay for our media team, all of it is because you donate. Whether that is people who give on a $5 level, a $50 level, $500, whatever it may be, know that it all goes in. And the vast majority of people cuz you may look at and go, Logan, I'm not having money to make a difference here. The vast majority of the people who donate to keep this all going give somewhere between $25 and $75 once or maybe once in every few months or once a year. So not everyone becomes a champion and gives on a regular on going basis. Actually a very very small percentage. We say it's kind of an elite club under 20,000 I believe do that. And they do it at the levels to again starting at $5. So again that that's a great baseline for us. But the ACLJ budget is significantly higher than that because I want when Andrew needs help to be able to jump in, not have to charge him, but for him to have the greatest legal team he can have. I want when you're watching this show to go, wow, that production was great. Wow, they got great commentators, great hosts, great phone screeners even. I want that to always be the case here at the ACLJ and production They all kind of looked to me like, why are you only giving love to the phone screeners? Phone lines are open though. So be kind to them. 1-800-684-3110. We'll be back in just a minute. This is our short break under a minute. Be right back with more on Seculo.
Guest (Female): For decades now, the ACLJ has been on the front lines protecting your freedoms, defending your rights in courts, in Congress, and in the public arena. The American Center for Law and Justice is on your side. If you're already a member, thank you. And if you're not, well, this is the perfect time to stand with us at aclj.org where you can learn more about our life-changing work. Become a member today. aclj.org